Dragonlance Dragonlance: Solamnic Knights & Mages of High Sorcery Preview

WotC has shared another preview of the upcoming Dragonlance setting/adventure with a look at backgrounds and feats for Solamnic Knights and Mages of High Sorcery.

Feats include Squire of Solamnia and Initiate of High Sorcery. Interestingly, one prerequisite is "Dragonlance Campaign", which implies that the feats can't be used outside that setting.

Dragonlance Backgrounds and Feats: Answer the Call as Knights and Mages

Will you join the Knights of Solamnia or the Mages of High Sorcery? Each offers a unique background and feats for Dragonlance characters. Get a sneak pe...

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[Stormonu]

I would hope WotC/Hasbro has a better grasp

Don't count on it; people are people whereever you go, and the same mistakes get made, big or small - new or old.

 

[wellis]

Stryxhaven seems quite a long way outside the box, at least much so as anything TSR produced. And it seems to have not been particularly successful.

Probably because people nowadays aren't interested in Harry Potter as much as back then.
Essentially even if you're creative, if you bark up the wrong tree, that creativity doesn't attract interest.

 

[Ixal]

Probably because people nowadays aren't interested in Harry Potter as much as back then.
Essentially even if you're creative, if you bark up the wrong tree, that creativity doesn't attract interest.

Is that really the case? While I do not have sales data Pathfinders Strength of Thousands (Magic School adventure path) was quite well received I think. Although some of that might have been the goodwill generated by the preceding setting book which was apparently very good.

Personally I am not interested in the new WotC releases because of their "creativity" but because of their throwaway, one shot nature without any details.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Before the saga of Harry Potter the wizarding school was a subgenre with titles for example "the worst witch".

Wizarding School - TV Tropes

In ye olden days, people learned skills by being apprenticed to someone, so it was natural to assume that magicians would learn the ropes in the same manner. Then, the modern age saw the rise of public schooling and universities almost completely …

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And there is a new videogame, Howards Legacy, then the franchise of Harry Potter isn't totally dead. Maybe that is the point, because Warner doesn't want a rival for its franchise. Do you rembember when Disney didn't want Ever After High, by Mattle, as a rival for their franchises of cartoon princesses?

I wonder we could see some day a Stryxhaven Playmobil.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Before the saga of Harry Potter the wizarding school was a subgenre with titles for example "the worst witch".

I mean magical school isn't JUST a harry potter thing... the magicians, heck the Xmen, like you said the worst witch (and some say HP is just a rip off of that one) all do it. In the 90's the Charmed Sisters found out about a magic school too (so perfectly names... magic school)

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

When I was a child I watched the 1986 version of "the Worst Witch", years before Harry Potter.


The the Japanese subgenre of maho-shojo/magical girl is decades before Harry Potter.

Child Mage - TV Tropes

The main magic user in the game or story happens to be the youngest person in the group. Possibly because the story writer wants to have a character that young for comic or dramatic effect (or just for sheer cuteness) and can't imagine said …

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[GMforPowergamers]

When I was a child I watched the 1986 version of "the Worst Witch", years before Harry Potter.


The the Japanese subgenre of maho-shojo/magical girl is decades before Harry Potter.

Child Mage - TV Tropes

The main magic user in the game or story happens to be the youngest person in the group. Possibly because the story writer wants to have a character that young for comic or dramatic effect (or just for sheer cuteness) and can't imagine said …

tvtropes.org

yeah that is teh one people say you can see where HP stole stuff

 

[bulletmeat]

yeah that is teh one people say you can see where HP stole stuff

That's exactly what I send when I first saw HP.
And I'm sorry but Tim Curry is still the best grand wizard, drag or not.